Wedding Shower Invitation {Grey & Lavender}

Designed a matching wedding shower invitation for these Grey and Lavender Wedding Invitations.

Custom Wedding Invitations {Grey and Lavender}

My best friends' little sister is getting married next month. I was excited to help with her wedding invitation design. Very simple, grey and lavender design featuring the couples photo and shabby, but chic spiral ornaments.

Fonts used in the design were from DaFont.com. Mortised Ornaments and Jellyka Delicious Cake

Au Revoir Rusty Water

It's never just choosing paint colors and shopping for antiques when owning an old home. More often it's fun stuff like being at the END of an ancient, city water line main that supplies your home with rusty, sediment filled water.

If you follow the progress of our house, you know we had MAJOR plumbing work done complete with custom cultured marble showers, re chromed faucets and two new potties. You can imagine our desire to delay using these new luxuries until the rust issue was resolved. After many phone calls to the city, a trip to the local water lab for testing and some um, unpleasant "discussions" between my spouse and I, the city is hooking us to a new water supply line!!!!

These photos show two of the four holes the city dug yesterday. Hope to be celebrating our new, clean water supply by purchasing NEW kitchen towels. Just not feelin' the "once white, now rust stained" towel look anymore.

Easter Breakdown

Our Easter holiday weekend when a little something like this:

 Dyed Easter Eggs with friends.

 Made Bird Nest Candies to share on Sunday.

 Read this book over and over.

 Awoke on Sunday morning to our traditional "trail of eggs to our Easter Basket" surprise.

 Got dressed up in matching dresses for church.

 Took pictures BEFORE leaving the house because...

 Mommy knew that we'd make a mess of ourselves on the drive to church.

 Spent time with family.

 Hunted eggs at Granny's house.

Fed the Easter Bunny a carrot. The End.

Mooshy Belly Bunny Easter Project

We had a wonderful Easter Holiday. Enjoyed dying eggs with friends. Made bird nest candies and I even had time to do a little sewing. In honor of Coralee's first Easter, I made her this "Mooshy Belly Bunny" a free pattern and tutorial from Chez Beeper Bebe.

4G Network {Coralee's Birth Announcement}

 Our family and friends waited with anticipation for the arrival of baby Evans #3. We kept the gender a surprise and so, on new years day, when Coralee Ann joined our family many giggled at the thought of our future with three girls in tow. Comments like: "Poor Steven. He's so outnumbered." "No shortage of hormones in that household." "How does it feel to be floating in a sea of estrogen?" During one such conversation, my brother-n-law, Kevin, coined the phrase "The Evans Family 4G Network." (4G aka Four Girl). I thought it would make a humorous and fun birth announcement design concept. And, as often happens, I couldn't decided which design I liked best! Here are the final two designs. I added the tag line "Life in High Speed." We are truly in for a ride!

Pink, Please

The girl's room is finished! What fun its been to plan this PINK girly bedroom for my babies. To put the excitement into perspective for you, when I was pregnant with Marin, my four and a half year old, the wall behind her bed was studs and insulation. Since then, we've rewired (the entire house), hung sheetrock. Installed a ceiling fan, painted the walls. Stripped and painted the trim. Had the floors refinished built closet shelving, bought furniture, hung curtain rods and curtains, bought bedding on sale...well, you get the picture. It's been a LONG TIME COMING. I've added sources for most of the items in the room at the end of this post (if you're curious).

The last two photo show my favorite items in the room. Spinning duck music box and hot air balloons plus the walking hedgehog toy I bought while pregnant with Marin. My shadow box of vintage letter toys and the antique mirror hanging on an old door knob that was salvaged from an exterior door of our house.

Don't let these dreamy photos fool you. It's a kids room and at some points it looks like this:

Sources: Pink Curtains (Anna's Linens). Henley Stripe Quilt (Pottery Barn Teen). Pink polka dot sheets (Target). Throw pillows were handmade by my sister-n-law, Beth Evans. Modern Classics Rocking Chair bought on sale via (HauteLook). Darby Bed with trundle (JCPenny). Crib and Dresser Baby Mod Oliva (Wal-Mart). Ringum Circle Rugs (iKea). Wooden Toy Hedgehog Walker purchased from a toy store in New Mexico, but you can find them online too. Hot air balloons are made by Authentic Models and are available through Amazon. I bought ours from a novelty shop in Virginia. Wall color is Restoration Hardware Silver Sage.